The conviction of Ratko Mladic was cheered by Bosniaks but condemned by Bosnian Serb leaders, while rival reactions to the acquittal of Bosniak commander Naser Oric also highlighted the country’s continuing ethnic discord.
Over the past 18 months, Bosnian state judicial bodies have still not yet found efficient ways to confiscating illegally-acquired assets acquired from people convicted of organised crime.
Not a single Bosnian has been registered as going to the Middle East to fight in the last year and a half, and the authorities’ anti-terrorism focus has been redirected from prosecutions to deradicalisation programmes.
An economics professor, a karate expert, a TV producer - six ex-officials of the Bosnian Croat wartime statelet Herzeg-Bosnia, now awaiting their final verdicts in The Hague, were brought together by the 1990s conflict.
The Bosnian state prosecution charged former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Dalibor Krstovic with the rape and sexual abuse of a Bosniak woman in Kalinovik in 1992.
The prosecution charged Krstanovic on Wednesday with committing crimes against humanity during a widespread and systematic attack on Bosniak civilians in Kalinovik.
The number of people arriving illegally in Bosnia has grown this year as desperate migrants seek new ways to reach EU states after other countries on the ‘Balkan Route’ closed their borders.
Over 20,000 people gathered at the Srebrenica memorial site in Bosnia to mourn those killed in the July 1995 massacres and bury 71 more victims whose bodies were identified over the past year.
Prosecutors from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia told a panel discussion in Sarajevo about how to begin and develop investigations into the perpetrators of war crimes and those who commanded them.
Nihad Bojadzic, the former deputy commander of the Bosnian Army’s Zulfikar Squad, will be retried for the abuse of Croat prisoners of war in the Jablanica area in 1993.
The appeals chamber of the state court in Sarajevo on Friday accepted an appeal from Nihad Bojadzic’s defence and quashed part of his first-instance verdict which convicted him of crimes against prisoners of war in Jablanica in 1993.
Despite the fact that some cases involve the organised exploitation of minors, the Bosnian authorities have failed to find a workable solution to the widespread problem of children begging on the streets.